American tourist makes illicit visit to isolated Andaman Islands tribe that killed missionary in 2018 and gets totally ignored

An American tourist made an illicit visit to a dangerous, isolated tribe in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands — only to be totally ignored by the people, who have had no contact with the outside world in 30 years, authorities in the Indian territory said.That’s probably a good thing for 24-year-old Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov.The last outsider who visited the islands, American missionary John Allen Chau, was killed by the tribe in 2018 and his body remains buried on the island to this day.Polyakov, a Ukrainian-American national was arrested on Sunday after he allegedly took a single-seat boat to the restricted North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean — the same spot where the isolated Sentinelese tribe shot Chau with an arrow after he tried to convert them to Christianity, the Press Trust of India reports.HS Dhaliwal, the director general of police on the islands, said Polyakov was spotted taking off from a beach in South Andaman on March 29 just after midnight carrying just a coconut and can of soda, which he claimed were “offerings for the Sentinelese.”North Sentinel Island is about 25 miles west of the popular resort areas of the Indian Ocean island chain.“We are getting more details about him and his intention to visit the reserved tribal area,” he told the local outlet.“We are also trying to find out where else he has visited during his stay in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.” Polyakov, who arrived in in the main city of Port Blair on March 26, reached the north shore of the island — where all outsiders are banned by Indian law — by 10 a.m., but he appeared to be ignored by the Sentinelese people, police noted after confiscating his GoPro camera.He used binoculars to try and spot Sentinelese tribal members from his boat to no avail, and allegedly used a whistle to try and attract attention.After failing to come into contact with the tribe, Polyakov landed on the island for about five minutes, leaving his offerings on the shore, collecti...